Install Omada Controller with Ansible playbook

Introduction

In the previous post on “How to Install Omada controller on ubuntu”, we deployed the controller with all the manual method. To deploy on multiple machines and multiple locations, it’s cumbersome and time consuming.

So, it is efficient to use automation to deploy the controller.

Ansible Playbook

Playbook can be found at repo, clone the repo with the following

git clone https://github.com/kdpuvvadi/omada-ansible.git omada-ansible

and cd into the directory

cd omada-ansible

Supported Repos

Tested the playbook on the following repos

• Debian 10, 11
• CentOS 8, Rocky Linux 8
• Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04

Ansible Setup

• install pip sudo apt install python3-pip -y
• install ansible with pip python3 -m pip install ansible

Variables & Inventory

• Copy inventory sample file cp inventory.ini.j2 inventory.ini
• Change the ip address with actual IP address of the host server.
• Copy variable file with cp vars.ini.j2 vars.ini
• install requirements ansible-galaxy collection install -r requirements.yml

Run

Test Connection

To test the connection with host run the following and it should return success message.

ansible all -m ping

run the playbook

ansible-playbook main.yml

If you need password for the sudo append -K and enter the password when prompted

ansible-playbook main.yml -K

Post Installation

• Omada controller will be available on https://HOST-IP:8088/ or https://HOST-IP:8043/.
• Following ports should be open on host for the controller to work properly.
  • 8088
  • 8043
  • 27001
  • 27002
  • 29810
  • 29811
  • 29812
  • 29813

Manage Omada Service

• sudo tpeap status – show the status of Controller;
• sudo tpeap start – start the Omada Controller;
• sudo tpeap stop –stop running the Omada Controller.

*Au revoir